How Canada became an education superpower

Re:How Canada became an education superpower by dang on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:27AM (#14917385)

This breaks the HN guidelines, which say:

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

So would you please not take threads in that direction, whence they never return?

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Re:How Canada became an education superpower by alacombe on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:26AM (#14917606)

I do believe there is something directly related to this thread. My intention was to point out the fact that the concept of "equality of outcome" is an erroneous metric. I specifically amended the second part of my comment to omit orientation of gender and focus on the personality traits.

That is, two grade A student may end up in totally different outcome, skewing statistics which would limit themselves to phenotypical attributes.

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Re:How Canada became an education superpower by dang on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:48AM (#14917723)

The topic is education in Canada, not equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity. Off-topic tangents can be fine when they're concrete, but generic tangents inevitably head off in a worse direction, and generic ideological tangents are the worst.

More on this point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912821 if anyone's interested.

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